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Old 11-24-2020, 12:21 AM   #1473
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Originally Posted by trungng2006 View Post
Yes, this is exactly what i mean . I think cut and paste will not solve the different format/template problem. I think the first step, maybe the plugin can implement a CSV format template (where user can paste in the information in respective cell/collumn with excel).
While that would be possible, honestly, no-one has ever expressed an interest in this before. I have no interest in doing it myself. If someone wants to code it, I'll be happy to add it to the plugin.
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This is very exciting to know!
May I ask, would this also apply to Kobo reading application?
If you mean the Kobo iOS or Android apps, then no. It will be exactly the same as it is now. It will only apply to apps/devices where the annotations can be seen somehow and someone writes code for them. The Kobo apps do not put the annotations somewhere they can bee seen.
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This is the problem i stated in my first post. All the devices and app will have their own format. I am not a programer so this may sound weird, but what i am suggesting is that the annotation plugin just extract the book title and annotation from the reading app/device. Then using the book title to match book. Then use calibre search to locate the annotation text in the book passage. Then use this information to generate/integrate the fetched annotation into calibre annotation. In my opinion, this is the way to by pass the format problem.
You mean, like the Annotations plugin works right now? This is what the annotations plugin does when it gets annotations. It tries to match the book the annotations are against to books in the calibre library. For Kobo devices this is exact. For Kindle, tolinos and any apps, it is an educated guess because the titles and authors are not guaranteed to be the same everywhere. And it will prompt for a confirmation if the match is not very good.

Following that up with a search of the book would take a long and be very expensive. And I don't know if the search can be triggered in that way. I'll consider it, but, I doubt I will do it at this point. And of course, it also requires that the string being searched for is unique.
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